Auckland Architecture Chat Tomorrow - 11:30am, Thursday 21st October 2010.

Location (As usual) is Garrisons, Sylvia Park:

Possible topics include:

• SisoDb
• Microsoft NuPack
• World of Visual Studio (WoVS)
• Bitcoin
• Ray Ozzie steps down
• 4Square mongo-db outage
• Visual Studio 2010 Boo Plugin (alpha)

The wave for this week can be found here.  If you have other topics you would like to discuss, just add them to the list.

There is also a wiki (somewhat outdated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location etc.

See you all tomorrow!

Architecture Chat this Thursday 29th September - 11:30am - Garrisons, Sylvia Park, Auckland.

Some possible topics:

• GoGaRuco 2010, including Avi Bryant - GoGaRuco talk (video not yet released).
• Oslo - official death notice.
• Manos - new .Net web framework.
• Shoudly - should testing for .Net.
• RavenDB - index replication to relational databases.
• Kipunji - very pretty web XML Doc viewer - example here.
• ASP.Net vulnerability.  Demo of the Padding Oracle attack. Security update now available.
• Omega - language of the future.
• Spatial data queries in LightSpeed.
• Orcon builds CDN for Sky...
• Silverlight SEO.

We also didn't really cover most of last weeks topics here.

The wave for this week can be found here if you have other topics you would like to discuss, post them there.

There is also a wiki (somewhat outdated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location etc.

See you all tomorrow!

Architecture Chat this Thursday 16th September - 11:30am - Garrisons, Sylvia Park, Auckland.

Some possible topics:

• Cool ruby quine of the globe.
• Douglas Purdy (Oslo tech lead) leaves MS for Facebook
• Senior engineer confirms Apple working on MacRuby for iOS
• Nice Uncle Bob refactoring presentation
• Android Tablets - Samsung tablet, Archos, etc.
• Seaside 3 released
• Microsoft HTML5/WPF/Silverlight dramas (1 & 2)
• Monorail 3 underway
• I want a new programming language (Journeyman languages...)
• Another JavaScript TDD/BDD Framework - Jasmine.
• TechEd videos from the Mindscape lads.
• Client side image reduction in javascript.
• Unix stack exchange - http://unix.stackexchange.com/
• iOS loosened up developer restrictions.  Good news for monotouch.
• Been around for a while, but just stumbled across this brief retrospective on transaction memory, and the follow up post... interesting stuff.

The wave for this week can be found here - if you have other topics you would like to discuss, post them there.

There is also a wiki (somewhat outdated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location etc.

See you all tomorrow!

Architecture Chat this Thursday 26th August - 11:30am -
Garrisons, Sylvia Park, Auckland.

Some potential topics:

• NSubstitute - Another .Net mocking framework.
  
• More lightswitch discussions (yawn)
  
• Castle Windsor 2.5
  
• NHibernate Designer from Mindscape
  
• RestCake - Yet
  another REST framework for .Net
  
• Boat - sinatra
  inspired web framework for C#
  
• JQuery Mobile, and
  Sencha
  Touch - javascript mobile touch frameworks.
  
• What would you like to see
  Microsoft do with IronRuby?
  

For those people attending the Architecture Chat this week
Mindscape have kindly
offered to provide licenses of their NHibernate designer tool -
more details will be given at the chat.

The wave for this week can be found here - if you have other topics you would like to discuss,
post them there.



There is also a wiki (somewhat outdated) with additional details about the
Architecture chat, including location etc.

Also don't forget that Code Camp is this Sunday, August
29th.  You can see the list of sessions and plan your day on
the website here. 
It's bigger and better then ever before this year, so it should
be a great event!

See you all tomorrow!

The Architecture Chat is on tomorrow, 5th of August 2010,
11:30am, Sylvia Park, Auckland.

Some potential topics for discussion:

• Padrino - Interesting looking ruby web framework built on top of sinatra.rb
• Gerrit - Very interesting code review tool for Git hosted code - from Google. It's what they use for Code reviews on the Android code base. Example site up here - https://review.source.android.com/ CR on DVCS' is kinda tricky - this seems to solve things nicely.
• Apple Unveils New 27-inch LED Cinema Display - USD$999 - that's actually a good price for a hi res (not 1080p) IPS monitor.  Also phasing out 24" and 30".
• Microsoft.Data released - and it's  drawing criticism too.
• Package Management in .Net (Nu)
• ILMerge to the resuce?
• Figment - web DSL for F#
• HQL Language support in visual studio
• Visual Studio LightSwitch
• Akka
• Mirah programming language looks interesting.
• EAV, Document Databases and creating hybrid solutions (or migrating from one to another).

The wave this week can be found here.  If you want to raise topics for next time either email them, start a wave, or post them on twitter with the hashtag #ArchitectureChat.

There is also a wiki (somewhat outdated) with additional details about the Architecture chat, including location etc.

Also coming up this month:

• Google bar camp - Saturday 21st August, 2010.  People are still cancelling, so I believe slots are freeing up quite regularly.
• Auckland Code Camp - Sunday August 29th 2010.   Shaping up to be a great event.

See you all tomorrow.